Question

what is the formula used to find the area of a trapezoid?

Answer 1

\[(1/2)(b_{1}+b _{2})h\]

Answer 2

\[b _{1}\] is base 1, one of the unequal sides, and \[b _{2}\] is base 2, the other unequal side.
h is the height, the height of the equal sides.